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The cemetery contains 141 Commonwealth burials (39 soldiers from United Kingdom, 3 soldiers from Australia, 59 soldiers Canadian, 1 South African), 39 of which are unidentified. There are also 14 French soldiers burials in the cemetery.
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The cemetery contains 144 burials and commemorations (13 United Kingdom soldiers, 4 Australian soldiers and 127 Canadian soldiers).
Eleven of the burials are unidentified but a special memorial commemorates one casualty known to be buried among them.
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Roye New British Cemetery was made after the Armistice of 1918 when graves were brought from the battlefields and other cemeteries relocation.
The cemetery contains 565 Commonwealth burials (481 United Kingdom soldiers, 69 Canadian soldiers, 14 South African soldiers and 1 Australian soldiers) and commemorations. 153 of the burials are unidentified but there are special memorials are erected to 13 casualties known or believed to be buried among them.
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Noyon was the British G.H.Q. on the 26th - 28th August 1914. It was entered by the Germans on the 1st September 1914, by the French on the 18th March 1917 and by the Germans again in March 1918. The French finally retook it on the 29th and 30th August 1918. It was twice bombarded by the enemy and in 1918 practically destroyed. Noyon Old British Cemetery was made by the 46th Casualty Clearing Station and the 44th Field Ambulance in March, 1918, in a woodyard near the railway station.
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The village of Bouchoir passed into German hands on 27 March 1918 but was recovered by the 8th Canadian Infantry Brigade on 9 August 1918. The New British Cemetery was made after the Armistice when graves were brought there from several small Commonwealth cemeteries (read more for a detailled list of these cemeteries) and from the battlefields round Bouchoir and south of the village. Almost all date from March, April or August 1918
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